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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Debra Dickerson
Ten winners from 2000
Editor Laura Miller and journalist Stephen Cox discuss this year's Salon Book Award winners. [01/03/01]
Salon Book Awards
Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.
"An American Story" by Debra Dickerson
The passionate, category-defying journalist levels her tough gaze on her own journey from the ghetto to Harvard Law School and beyond.
False prophet
A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
No apologies
How I learned to fight for my country, proudly.
Try him again
Justice for the widow of a dead police officer, cut down in the prime of his life, will not be served by executing a framed man, even if he's guilty.
Black like who?
Mumia Abu-Jamal may be a symbol of racism to the celebrity set, but to most black people, he's just a scary character who probably got what he deserved.
"The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" by Linda Gordon
A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob.
Goodnight, Irene
Blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for years, but now they seem to be rethinking their political allegiances.
White men can jump
When Baltimore, which is 65 percent black, chose a white as its next mayor, it marked a watershed event in the evolution of America's racial politics. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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